00:00Well, Enor Cevig is a former chief advisor to Turkey's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
00:06Mr. Cevig, great to have you on the show.
00:08So, Turkey sits at a crossroads of this crisis.
00:11Just how concerned is Ankara?
00:15Very, very concerned because this is a very serious situation,
00:20not only for Turkey, but for the whole region.
00:23And if there's regional stability, it means very bad for Turkey.
00:28You see, we are not involved in the fighting,
00:32but as we're a valuable next-door neighbor to Iran,
00:37everything that happens there affects us very deeply.
00:41It hurts our economy in general, but it also hurts our regional relations.
00:49And we don't know if that fire eventually will come over here.
00:54So, we are very concerned.
00:56Yeah, you said that it may hurt Turkey's economy heavily.
00:59We know that the country is heavily dependent on importers' energy.
01:04And how exposed are the Turkish economy to energy price shocks if the street of Hormuz is closed?
01:11Well, it will be very sensitive to this because, as you said,
01:19we are importing all our energy, especially most of our oil that comes from that region.
01:25So, it will be quite harmful for Turkish economy.
01:30And we know that Turkey could act as a mediator between Washington and Taekwondo.
01:36Do you think that Turkey is aiming to do that?
01:42Well, Turkey wants to do that, but I think we are well past that stage.
01:47Nobody wants the mediation that we're offering because, as I said, the war is in an advanced stage.
01:58Nobody wants to listen to each other, especially with Khamenei now being assassinated.
02:08The odds that anybody will even listen to each other are very, very little.
02:15Plus, Turkey now realizes that it was taken for a right when it was trying to mediate between Iran and
02:23the United States.
02:25Netanyahu had already hijacked the whole issue and that he was creating a very serious situation in the Middle East
02:43where he was calling all the cards and he was taking us all for fools because we wanted to mediate.
02:52We thought we were mediating, but what Trump and Netanyahu was doing was cooking up a kind of attack,
03:03massive attack against Iran.
03:05Thank you very much.
03:07That is Inor Chavik, former chief advisor to Czechia's president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
03:11Thank you very much for your insight.
03:12Thank you so much.
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